FIREFIGHTER 2 CERTIFICATION 2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Strategy - ✔✔The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
✔✔Tactics - ✔✔The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic objectives.
✔✔Tasks - ✔✔The specific assignments that will get the job done.
✔✔Search and rescue tools - ✔✔Pushing tool (short like pole), prying tool (halligan
tool), striking tool (sledgehammer or flat-head axe), cutting tool (axe), portable hand
light, thermal imaging devices, life lines.
✔✔Tool staging - ✔✔Placing a tarp or salvage cover on the ground at a designated
location and laying out commonly used tools and equipment.
✔✔Carabiner - ✔✔Used to connect one rope to another rope or to other hardware such
as an anchor plate, swivel, or pulley. NFPA 1983
✔✔Harness - ✔✔A piece of rescue or safety equipment made of webbing and worn by
a person.
✔✔Class 2 harness - ✔✔Seat harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and legs and
has a design load of 600 lbs.
✔✔Class 3 harness - ✔✔Full body harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and
thighs as well as secures the rescuers waist and shoulders.
✔✔Trench rescue - ✔✔Rescue in collapsed trenches.
✔✔Confined space rescue - ✔✔Rescue in tanks, silos, underground electrical vaults
storm drains and other similar structures.
✔✔Water rescue - ✔✔Throwing a rope to a person in the water and pulling them to
shore, a rope stretched across a stream or river, a boat going to get a victim.
✔✔Venting for life safety - ✔✔Venting to clear smoke, heat, and toxic gasses from the
structure to give occupants a better chance to survive.
✔✔Venting for fire containment - ✔✔Releasing smoke and superheated gases to the
exterior to prevent the products of combustion from spreading throughout the interior of
a building or into adjoining spaces.
, ✔✔Venting for property conservation - ✔✔Reducing the losses caused by other means
than direct fire involvement.
✔✔NFPA 1962 - ✔✔Standard for inspection, care and use of fire hose, couplings, and
nozzles and service testing of fire hose.
✔✔Annual testing of fire hose - ✔✔1. Don PPE 2. Connect 300 ft of hose to a hose
testing gate valve on the discharge of FD pumper or hose tester
✔✔Hose records - ✔✔A written history of each individual length of fire hose
✔✔Hose line crew - ✔✔The optimal people on a hose line is 4 personnel
✔✔Foam concentrate - ✔✔Firefighting foam is produced by mixing ??? With water and
air to produce a solution that can serve as an effective extinguishing agent.
✔✔Class A foam - ✔✔Used to fight fires involving ordinary combustible materials such
as wood, paper, and textiles. It is also effective on organic materials such as straw and
hay. Increases the effectiveness of water as an extinguishing agent by reducing the
surface tension of water.
✔✔Class B foam - ✔✔Used to fight class B fires, fires involving flammable and
combustible liquids. A blanket of foam is used to smother the fuel of the fire putting it
out.
✔✔Foam solution - ✔✔The product that is actually applied to extinguish a fire or to
cover a spill.
✔✔Compressed air foam systems (CAFS) - ✔✔Relatively new method of making Class
A foam.
✔✔Compressed air foam (CAF) - ✔✔Produced by injecting compressed air into a
stream of water that has been mixed with 0.1 percent to 1 percent foam.
✔✔Protein foam - ✔✔Made from animal by-products. They are effective on Class B
hydrocarbon fires and are applied in 3 percent or 6 percent delivery rates.
✔✔Fluoroprotein foam - ✔✔Made from the same base materials as protein foam but
include additional fluorochemical surfactant additives.
✔✔Film-forming fluoroprotein (FFFP) - ✔✔Composed of protein plus film-forming
fluorinated surface-active agents, which make them capable of forming water solution
films on the surface of most flammable hydrocarbons and of conferring a fuel-shedding
property of the foam generated.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Strategy - ✔✔The "big picture" plan of what has to be done.
✔✔Tactics - ✔✔The steps that are taken to achieve the strategic objectives.
✔✔Tasks - ✔✔The specific assignments that will get the job done.
✔✔Search and rescue tools - ✔✔Pushing tool (short like pole), prying tool (halligan
tool), striking tool (sledgehammer or flat-head axe), cutting tool (axe), portable hand
light, thermal imaging devices, life lines.
✔✔Tool staging - ✔✔Placing a tarp or salvage cover on the ground at a designated
location and laying out commonly used tools and equipment.
✔✔Carabiner - ✔✔Used to connect one rope to another rope or to other hardware such
as an anchor plate, swivel, or pulley. NFPA 1983
✔✔Harness - ✔✔A piece of rescue or safety equipment made of webbing and worn by
a person.
✔✔Class 2 harness - ✔✔Seat harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and legs and
has a design load of 600 lbs.
✔✔Class 3 harness - ✔✔Full body harness. Fastens around the rescuers waist and
thighs as well as secures the rescuers waist and shoulders.
✔✔Trench rescue - ✔✔Rescue in collapsed trenches.
✔✔Confined space rescue - ✔✔Rescue in tanks, silos, underground electrical vaults
storm drains and other similar structures.
✔✔Water rescue - ✔✔Throwing a rope to a person in the water and pulling them to
shore, a rope stretched across a stream or river, a boat going to get a victim.
✔✔Venting for life safety - ✔✔Venting to clear smoke, heat, and toxic gasses from the
structure to give occupants a better chance to survive.
✔✔Venting for fire containment - ✔✔Releasing smoke and superheated gases to the
exterior to prevent the products of combustion from spreading throughout the interior of
a building or into adjoining spaces.
, ✔✔Venting for property conservation - ✔✔Reducing the losses caused by other means
than direct fire involvement.
✔✔NFPA 1962 - ✔✔Standard for inspection, care and use of fire hose, couplings, and
nozzles and service testing of fire hose.
✔✔Annual testing of fire hose - ✔✔1. Don PPE 2. Connect 300 ft of hose to a hose
testing gate valve on the discharge of FD pumper or hose tester
✔✔Hose records - ✔✔A written history of each individual length of fire hose
✔✔Hose line crew - ✔✔The optimal people on a hose line is 4 personnel
✔✔Foam concentrate - ✔✔Firefighting foam is produced by mixing ??? With water and
air to produce a solution that can serve as an effective extinguishing agent.
✔✔Class A foam - ✔✔Used to fight fires involving ordinary combustible materials such
as wood, paper, and textiles. It is also effective on organic materials such as straw and
hay. Increases the effectiveness of water as an extinguishing agent by reducing the
surface tension of water.
✔✔Class B foam - ✔✔Used to fight class B fires, fires involving flammable and
combustible liquids. A blanket of foam is used to smother the fuel of the fire putting it
out.
✔✔Foam solution - ✔✔The product that is actually applied to extinguish a fire or to
cover a spill.
✔✔Compressed air foam systems (CAFS) - ✔✔Relatively new method of making Class
A foam.
✔✔Compressed air foam (CAF) - ✔✔Produced by injecting compressed air into a
stream of water that has been mixed with 0.1 percent to 1 percent foam.
✔✔Protein foam - ✔✔Made from animal by-products. They are effective on Class B
hydrocarbon fires and are applied in 3 percent or 6 percent delivery rates.
✔✔Fluoroprotein foam - ✔✔Made from the same base materials as protein foam but
include additional fluorochemical surfactant additives.
✔✔Film-forming fluoroprotein (FFFP) - ✔✔Composed of protein plus film-forming
fluorinated surface-active agents, which make them capable of forming water solution
films on the surface of most flammable hydrocarbons and of conferring a fuel-shedding
property of the foam generated.
